The Physicality of Paint - Paintings by Jessica Kennedy and Alexander Eulert

Viewers enjoy Jessica Kennedy's new work

On First Friday, February 5, 2016, Matrix Fine Art featured an opening reception for The Physicality of Paint - Paintings by Jessica Kennedy and Alexander Eulert. 

The show features a series of pieces by Jessica Kennedy and Alexander Eulert, process painters who investigate the abstract and organic, architectural and natural with layers that evoke a sense of the micro and macro.

Works by Alexander Eulert

Jessica Kennedy's work attracts viewers

Jessica Kennedy’s large-scale, heavily patterned and layered paintings combine oil and acrylic in fascinating ways. Jessica’s love of action, and the physicality of paint are the driving forces behind her work and the natural world is her primary source of inspiration. She considers animals, the human body, and plant life as she generates painted worlds in which a single object (her painting) attempts to embody all three simultaneously.  In this imaginative space, Jessica depicts scenes that could take place in a rainforest, a pond, a laboratory, or inside the human body. 

Jessica Kennedy poses with her work

A viewer engages Jessica's newest works on plexiglass

Jessica received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. She currently lives and works in New Mexico.

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Alex Eulert‘s paintings are abstract worlds—delicate and dynamic string lines of paint buzz and trickle around often-bold bands of color, evoking emotional states and natural phenomena. 

The cubical forms are suggestive of monoliths, pueblos, golden‐green fields, unearthed inlaid armor from a Homeric poem—or, at times, technology. He draws his inspiration from a lifelong fascination with man as an integral part of nature, his manipulation of it and nature’s process of reclaiming human creations with the passage of Time. Process oriented and expressionistically inclined, Eulert skillfully explores the confluence between geology and archaeology, denoting a benevolent interplay between the natural and the man made.

Alexander Eulert poses with his paintings

Alexander received a Foundation in Graphics and Illustration from Cambridge Arts and Sciences–where he was awarded the highest level of Distinction—and then moved to London to complete a BA (Hons) in Silversmithing and Metalwork at Camberwell. College of Arts, University of the Arts London (formerly The London Institute). 

If you missed the exhibition opening, don't worry! The show runs through February 26th.

Penumbra

Once agan Matrix Fine Art was votes the number one gallery in the city by Albuquerque's Local IQ Smart List!
We opened the show Penumbra on the first Friday. It was currated by local artist Archer Dourghety and showcases fantastic work by pop-surrelists from across the country and internationally.

A video of the show made by friends of Archer can be viewed by clicking the link below.

PENUMBRA

RED opening!

 Matthew Lutz and his newest painting "Stand"

 Laura Wacha

 Clients

 Pamela DiMauro, artist and Jorge Tristani, artist

 Laura Wacha and Matthew Lutz talking

 David Koch, Matrix artist

What a great idea for a group show. The theme of the evening was the color red. It was great to see the variations of red and styles of Matrix artists.

David Koch’s newest pop art paintings!

David combines or layers disparate elements such as; a monochrome field of color, images and graphics. Many of his newest works are on two panels, wood panel and canvas next to each other with one placed higher than the other. The images are simplified to line that give the viewer enough information to visualize the whole image. The choice of images in his work may not always make sense visually however it may touch someone at an emotional or conceptual level. And what may make perfect sense to one person viewing the piece may not for someone else.

Stacy Hawkinson, fellow artist, and David Koch

Stacy Hawkinson, fellow artist, and David Koch






The opening on First Friday was a delight. It was wonderful to see many friends and family come over to support David’s new body of work. He also completed his "self portrait" series with this show. He has done many paintings of a piece of candy, with a pill of some sort, and a word on top. The “Self Portrait “ series
is a direct response to many personal issues that have evolved over time.
Here are two pieces titled, “Yes” and “Glad”








David has been busy painting and has work showing at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Check out the link for more information. http://www.cabq.gov/south-broadway-cultural-center/events/overlay-reconstructed-images

New Work by Raul Dorn

Raul just brought us these acrylic on paper paintings! Enjoy
Raul is an artist who lives and works in Las Cruces.


Subsonic 1
17 x 14.25"


Subsonic 2
17 x 14.25"


Caught in the Threat of Nature #4
19 x 14.25"


Caught in the Threat of Nature #3
19 x 14.25"


Caught in the Threat of Nature #2
19 x 14.25"


Caught in the Threat of Nature #1
19 x 14.25"

New work by Laura Wacha- pics coming soon!

As Aunt Bee said to Opie, “Finish your milk. We can’t put it back in the cow, you know.”
Like Aunt Bee, I’ve always been a big fan of finishing what I start. Usually once I declare a painting finished, I don’t go back to it again.
Recently however, I had an idea (Eureka!) to tear an old painting into strips, weave the strips together and paint over the result. The original image of three women on a sofa was fractured by the weaving but was still discernable to me and I used it as inspiration for the image that I then painted over the top. I found the potential for accidental alignments of images intriguing, as well as the option to retain the shapes and patterns of the original piece.
I enjoyed the process so much that I have ripped into strips other “finished” canvases that might benefit from a similar treatment. After painting a few of these reworked pieces, I am now painting pictures with the intent of ripping them up and weaving them together. What fun!
Laura Wacha